Last night, 17th November 2015, I had the honor of speaking alongside Sarah Nicholson at the Cape Town PHP Meetup Group on the topic of 'Efficiency in a Development Environment'. The evening was wonderfully organised by Shaun Morrow, who sets up these events in the PHP community in Cape Town as a wonderful way of [...]

In Plato's Apology, which is a recollection of speeches of Socrates at his trial, he quotes Socrates for having said: ὁ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ Vita nec scrutata vita nequam est. "An unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates would have much rather given up his life than given up philosophy - and his [...]

You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, [...]

"Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" - Epicurus I may soon die. As I now live, these are my thoughts on death. Growing up in a closely-knit religious community [...]

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” ― Osho Love has been the topic of poets, philosophers, and writers [...]

I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head and walk with you through that lucent wavering forest of bluegreen leaves with its watery sun & [...]

When I was in high school I had an Afrikaans language teacher in ninth grade who loved history, culture and philosophy more than he did language - our language lessons then would be spent talking about philosophy (he mostly talking) or telling historical stories - he was seen as quite the weirdo and was also quite [...]

This was quite an eventful meet-up in Cape Town for WooCommerce. The highlights, for me, speaking about 'Making WooCommerce your own' and Mark Forrester's Q&A about the WooThemes Acquisition with Sean Parker-Ross. https://twitter.com/WooThemes/status/611871340967149568 Here are my presenter slides for the meetup: ...and because it didn't happen unless there was a selfie 🙂

Last week I had the honor of writing an essay for HeroPress titled: "W-W-Waiting for the right circumstances". The response to it was great (judging by retweets, DM's, and emails.) I am absolutely grateful to Topher DeRosia for giving me such an honor. Topher is the awesome guy behind HeroPress.com. It will most likely be a [...]